Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure & Acquisition - Iowa City, IA, USA

Speechify • Iowa City, IA

14h • Remote

About The Position

Speechify's mission is to eliminate reading as a barrier to learning, with over 50 million users utilizing its text-to-speech products across various platforms (iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, Web) to convert written content into audio. The company has received accolades such as Google's Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple's 2025 Design Award for Inclusivity. Speechify operates as a 100% distributed company with nearly 200 employees globally, including engineers and AI research scientists from leading tech companies and universities. This role is for the Data side of the AI team, focusing on all aspects of data collection to support model training operations. The team builds high-quality, petabyte-scale datasets at low cost through integrated infrastructure, engineering, and research.

Requirements

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of industry experience in software development.
• Proficiency with bash/Python scripting in Linux environments
• Proficiency in Docker and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and professional experience with at least one major Cloud Provider (we use GCP)
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with web crawlers, large-scale data processing workflows is a plus

Responsibilities

• Be scrappy to find new sources of audio data and bring it into our ingestion pipeline
• Operate and extend the cloud infrastructure for our ingestion pipeline, currently running on GCP and managed with Terraform.
• Collaborate closely with our Scientists to shift the cost/throughput/quality frontier, delivering richer data at bigger scale and lower cost to power our next-generation models.
• Collaborate with others on the AI Team and Speechify Leadership to craft the AI Team’s dataset roadmap to power Speechify’s next-generation consumer and enterprise products.

Benefits

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
• An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
• A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.
• An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.
• Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.
• Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.
• Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
• Work in one of the fastest-growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior